Thanks for the posts. I don't love riding over 85 MPH, but LA freeways are nuts and sometimes I just have to. even at 95+ I get passed by silver BMW's and Red Ferrari's. Yeah, I think it's gonna be a Tiger. I don't like Sportbikes much, just not my thing. I like practical and functional and in the last three days, I've been witness to two motorcycle accidents within a mile from my house—both were sportbikes and both were the result of going too fast. That reminds me, if you don't live in the country, don't think when you ride your bike to a rural location it means you can drive like you are the only one alive. I have hit bobcats, coyotes and squirrels. I **** near ran into a heard of deer crossing the road once. The people that live out here (Mulholland Hiway about 30 miles outside of Los Angeles—a very popular place to ride motorcycles on the weekends "The Rock Store"
http://www.rock-store.com/), do not always look while exiting their driveways, nor do they always stop at stop signs. The worst are the bicycle packs on the weekends, well not they themselves, but the need they cause for cars to pass them by way of crossing over into the oncoming lane. I have seen cars and bikes head to head around blind turns. I have been face to face with a car that speeded up to pass a pack of bicycles and they didn't expect to me coming around the corner. I have even seen sportbikes go off cliffs. My point: Be careful. I ride fast, but when I see driveways and "fun twisties" I slow down. I'm sure the guy I saw flattened out on the street next to his mangled bike yesterday would have liked to have known that. I'm sure he was doing what I see everyone on a sportbike do on that street, he was probably going 80+ and someone pulled out of their driveway and he swerved. Poor shmuck. No jacket either, his backpack saved most of his back. I couldn't see his front as he was laying on his belly. His bike was destroyed. Today I will be more cautious and try and remember. Thanks for the feedback.
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